unix 'spell'

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <197660 at hrc.UUCP>, dan at hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes:
> 
> I need to be able to find out what are all the words available in the
> hlista compressed spell file. But how do I do it???

Write a program that will genererate every possible combination of
letters up to some reasonable length (say, 15 letters).  Pipe this
through spell and capture the output.  Words not in common are in
the dictionary.

      :-) :-) :-) :-) 
      :-)  Steve  :-)
      :-) :-) :-) :-) 

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